Main Event Day 2 | 2017 PokerStars Festival Manila

08-06-2017 15:20 UTC+8

"The Rich Get Richer"

Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Short stack Trung Hieu Le three-bet all in out of the big blind and showed to see big stack Kian Weng Choong call with .

The board came and the runner runner spades sent Le to the rail.

Kok Hou Toh took care of Wai Kiat Lee and also boosted his stack while further casualties can be found below.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kian Weng Choong	240,000 70,400	70,400
Kok Hou Toh	225,000 74,900	74,900
Wai Kiat Lee	Busted
Trung Hieu Le	Busted
Daniel Benor	Busted
Zhi Han Neo	Busted
Naohito Tamaya	Busted
Eric Tsai	Busted
Vijay Narula	Busted

Tags: Kian Weng Choong Kok Hou Toh Trung Hieu Le Wai Kiat Lee

08-06-2017 15:18 UTC+8

Yi Folds Out Advani

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Ben Wilson

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Romit Advani is looking a little short and his situation did not improve after the following hand. Advani was the man driving the action with a mid-position raise to 7,600 with Korea’s Seung Yong Yi (small blind) and Finland’s Niilo Heinikangas (big blind) making the call to take the action three-way to a flop of .

Both Yi and Heinikangas checked the action over to Advani, who continuation bet 11,000, leaving himself 46,000 behind. Yi then check-raised to 25,000 to send Advani into the think tank, where he remained for several minutes.

Eventually, the Indian player decided to wait for a better spot and let it go, leaving Yi to collect the pot and climb to over 200,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Seung Yong Yi	200,000 21,600	21,600
Romit Advani	46,000 7,900	7,900

Tags: Romit Advani Niilo Heinikangas Seung Yong Yi

08-06-2017 15:09 UTC+8

Wu Doubles

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Ben Wilson

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Manila Megastack 7 champion Po-Yi Wu opened the action from early position with a raise to 5,600 with Chi Thinh Nguyen (cutoff) the only caller.

Wu continuation bet the flop to the tune of 8,500 and Nguyen made a quick call to bring the action to the turn.

Wu eyed up his opponent for a few seconds and then moved all-in for 39,300 in total and Chi had a decision to make. After counting down his stack the Vietnamese player decided he had chips to spare and threw in the call.

Unfortunately for Nguyen, his Taiwanese opponent was holding [acd], which had Nguyen’s drawing pretty thin and the river was not a king. Wu doubled to 94,300 while Nguyen dropped to 117,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chi Thinh Nguyen	117,000 75,900	75,900
Po-Yi Wu	94,300 64,100	64,100

Tags: Thinh Nguyen Chi Po-Yi Wu

Level: 14

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 500

08-06-2017 15:08 UTC+8

Tong Bad Beats Shih

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Kenny Shih moved all in for his last 38,900 from the big blind and Chee Sun Tong eventually called from the cutoff after having raised initially.

Kenny Shih:
Chee Sun Tong:

Tong first rolled over his five, but the one over card would turn out to be important. A board of gave Tong trips aces and Shih joined the rail. Kevin Ang and Khanh Le Ngoc followed soon after and the field has been reduced to the last 145 hopefuls at the end of level 13.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chee Sun Tong	130,000 30,900	30,900
Kevin Ang	Busted
Kenny Shih	Busted
Khanh Le Ngoc	Busted

Tags: Chee Sun Tong Kenny Shih Kevin Ang Khanh Le Ngoc

08-06-2017 15:01 UTC+8

Park's Fours No Good

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Joohyun Park got the remainder of his short stack in with and Wenceslao Sombero looked him up from two seats over with the dominating . The board came and Park failed to get there, joining the rail close to the end of the first level on Day 2.

Player	Chips	Progress
Wenceslao Sombero	115,000 55,900	55,900
Joohyun Park	Busted

Tags: Joohyun Park Wenceslao Sombero

08-06-2017 14:53 UTC+8

Okada Among Next Casualties

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Among the next to fall early on Day 2 were Ming Kee Liow, Frederick Dimayuga and Ken Okada. The latter got it in with ace-jack and failed to get there against the ace-king of his opponent.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jensen Chow	Busted
Si Yang Phua	Busted
Ming Kee Liow	Busted
Frederick Dimayuga	Busted
Bruce Fabillaran	Busted
Ken Okada	Busted

08-06-2017 14:46 UTC+8

Big Movements in the APOY Race

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Joining the action on the turn, Euryd Rivera and Sparrow Cheung invested 15,000 each to see the appear on the turn. Rivera bet 15,000 and Cheung asked to see the stack of his opponent. He then took some time before moving all in for more than 60,000 and Rivera took equally long to call it off for slightly less.

Euryd Rivera:
Sparrow Cheung:

The river was a blank and Rivera was eliminated.

Over on table one, a costly misstep may have put fellow Asian Player of the Year contender Pete Chen at a disadvantage against Cheung. In a raising war, Chen faced a three-bet to 12,200 by Segundo Barte and eventually put the Filipino at risk.

Segundo Barte:
Pete Chen:

The board came and the pair of queens held up. "How much is it?" Chen asked and his eyes grew bigger when Barte's stack was counted to be for 142,200, a hugeportion of Chen's stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Segundo Barte	290,000 139,000	139,000
Sparrow Cheung	220,000 99,800	99,800

Pete Chen	30,000 135,300	135,300

Euryd Rivera	Busted

Tags: Sparrow Cheung Segundo Barte Euryd Rivera Pete Chen

08-06-2017 14:44 UTC+8

Moon Busts Bui

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Ben Wilson

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Jongyoung Moon opened the action with a raise to 6,000 and small blind Hoon Chai Ra flat called before Duc Bui moved all-in from the big blind for another 47,800.

Moon re-shoved to isolate, sending Ra deep into the think tank, where he remained for a good five minutes until an irate tablemate called for the clock. Ra let the full minute pass before open-folding and the other two players turned their hands over.

Duc Bui:
Jongyoung Moon:

The flop put Moon in front and Ra looked pretty happy with his fold. The turn and river provided Bui no help and he headed for the rail while Moon stacked up to 230,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Jongyoung Moon	230,000 58,900	58,900
Hoon Chai Ra	81,000 6,100	6,100
Duc Bui	Busted

Tags: Jongyoung Moon Hoon Chai Ra Duc Bui

08-06-2017 14:33 UTC+8

Chong Loses Small Pot, Busts Wu

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Victor Chong bet the turn for 7,100 from the cutoff and Niilo Heinikangas in the small blind called. The river was checked and the Finn showed for pair of kings to win the pot.

Soon after, though, Jack Wu was spotted leaving the table. The board of [8d3c2s19d8s] was all but rushed away and Wu joined the rail with against the for trips eights of Chong.

Player	Chips	Progress
Victor Chong	175,000 26,400	26,400
Niilo Heinikangas	103,000 18,500	18,500
Jack Wu	Busted

Tags: Jack Wu Niilo Heinikangas Victor Chong